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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

reduce alerts for Redundant Application Servers SAP

s it possible to use the SAP message server (which has an overview of all application servers) to monitor the application servers, in order to avoid Instana raising alerts for a down server when a replica is still ensuring service continuity?
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Use SAProuter proxies to connect instana SAP sensor

Can we use SAProuter proxies (like those used by Solution Manager) instead of remote hosts for the ABAP Sensor
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Not under consideration

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration

extend Netcool OMNIbus message_bus jms transport layer to parse jms header meta data

actually the Netcool Message_Bus probe jms transport layer only parses the jms message payload data, but not the jms message header data. The jms header data contains important information like message-id, timestamps, object-uri, etc. which is imp...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Ability to Nest Contracts through Parent Child Contract Relationship

Business Need: We need the ability to nest contracts within Apptio Planning Contracts. We are looking for the ability to have a parent contract line showing the contract date for the enterprise and then the child entries split out by our divisions...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Freeze Environment and Settings When Scrolling Down

When in a BI report and scrolling down to various visualizations you lose the Environment box, along with the Current View box. Need that to stay in place/be visible when scrolling down.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted